"Evil is powerless if the Good are unafraid" ~~Ronald Reagan

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This is an email sent to me from a reader.

Is THIS a solution to neighborhood issues?

Dallas Solution

I have a friend who is president of his homeowners association in the Dallas , Texas suburbs. They were having a terrible problem with litter near some of his association’ s homes. The reason according to my friend is that six very large, luxurious new houses are being built right next to their community.

The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the construction sites and included bags from McDonald’s, Burger King and 7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty bottles, etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the neighborhood, to no avail. He called the city, county, and police and got no help there either.

So here’s what his community did. They organized about twenty folks, named themselves The “Inner Neighborhood Services” group, and arranged to go out at lunch time and “police” the trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious.

They bought navy blue baseball caps and had the initials “INS” embroidered in gold on the caps

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people might mistakenly think the letters really stand for..

After the Inner Neighborhood Services group’s first lunch time pickup detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras, 46 out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work the next morning — and haven’t come back yet.

It has been ten days now.

The General Contractor, I’m told, is madder than hell, but can’t say anything publicly because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens. My friend and his bunch can’t be accused of impersonating federal personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in their homeowner association minutes along with a notation about the vote to approve formation of the new subcommittee — and besides, they informed the INS in advance of their plans, and according to my friend, the INS said basically, “Have at it!”

No apology for sending this! ! ! After hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish – enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation — not even close. I’m NOT sorry if this offends anyone because this is MY COUNTRY – IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP — please pass this along.

Immigrants: Come through like everyone else. APPLY FIRST – Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past —

this email is from May 2006. I Googled the words “Inner Neighborhood Services Dallas Texas” and found out that this email is from May 2006.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service is now a function of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and that agency doesn’t allow 3rd party group to use their INS insignia and pretend to be an actual government agency so I don’t believe that this email is true.

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Attack this email and then make the statement: “I don’t believe that this email is true”……no FACTUAL rebuttal.

To Americans reading this comment:

Sherie Olson is utilizing the Alaskan State Government website to send this SPAM out.

Classy!

IP Address Location
IP Address 158.145.224.34
City Anchorage
State or Region Alaska
Country United States
ISP Alaska State Government.

This phony story has been floating around the ‘net since 2006. So far, the story has been placed in DC, Topeka, and Dallas. No matter where it’s placed, it’s still bullshit.

Never happened.

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Response by Romanticpoet:

Snopes is a site started by David and Barbara Mikkelson. They want everyone to believe what they say as the unverifiable truth.

Some of what they say is true, however they have been proven wrong more than once with their somewhat left leaning slant.

Here is one:

The biggest criticism Snopes has attracted for defending the Clintons involves Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and the Black Panthers. Differing sharply from news and historical accounts, and even from another urban-legends Website, TruthOrFiction.com, Snopes maintains that it is false that “Hillary Clinton played a significant role in defending Black Panthers accused of torturing and murdering Alex Rackley.”

The Mikkelsons call a 2000 Insight piece by John Elvin detailing Clinton’s role as a Yale law student in supporting the Black Panthers on trial for brutally murdering Rackley, a fellow Panther (see “Hillary Hides Her Panther Fling,” July 31, 2000), a “woefully bad piece of ‘journalism.'” According to Snopes, “the sum total of her involvement in the trial was that she assisted the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] in monitoring the trial for civil-rights violations.”

In the interview with Insight, Mikkelson wonders how anyone could object to Hillary’s effort on behalf of the Panthers. “She was working with the ACLU, which is what any smart law student would do,” she says. When Insight points out to her that many believe some elements of the ACLU have a left-wing agenda, she replies, “There are some people who disagree with the Easter Bunny, too.”

Shaky analogies aside, Hillary did more than simply compile reports. According to The First Partner, the authoritative biography by Joyce Milton, Hillary organized the students monitoring the trial, and the students “worked closely with the Panthers’ lead attorney, Charles Garry.” Based on the students’ observations, Garry “raised a multitude of issues about the allegedly unfair treatment of his clients, which ranged from the trivial to the bizarre,” Milton wrote. This strategy was ultimately successful in keeping two of the Panthers from being convicted.

Clinton later interned in Oakland for Panther lawyer Robert Treuhaft, an avowed Communist. “Anybody who leaves you with the impression that Hillary did not participate in support of the Black Panthers at the trial is not presenting an accurate impression,” says Rich Buhler, operator of TruthOrFiction.com.

But Clinton was not just involved in the Panthers’ legal defense. She was serving as a key editor of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action when the review published its fall 1970 issue defending the Panthers. Included in the issue were drawings of policemen as pigs, with one pig decapitated and the accompanying caption, “Seize the time.” Again, the Mikkelsons put the best spin on this, writing that “no one has demonstrated that she approved (or even knew) of it.” Besides, Mikkelson tells Insight, depicting the police as pigs is no big deal. “Were policemen never referred to as pigs before at colleges?” she asks.

Insight’s Elvin laughs that those interested in separating rumor from fact must be at least as skeptical of Snopes as they are of urban legends in circulating e-mails. “It’s obvious that they’re agenda-driven,” Elvin says. “The credibility that they’ve established is based on the laziness of reporters who have used them as a source.” The NLPC’s Flaherty, who also researched the Panther story when writing his biography of Hillary Clinton, The First Lady, reaches a similar conclusion. “It sounds to me like they’re starting their own urban legends,” he says.